The Dissolution of Self
Saidin Salkic is a Bosnian-Australian filmmaker whose recent prolific output includes Waiting for Sevdah (2017, 40 mins), Silence’s Crescendo (2018, 41 mins), The Shocking (2019, 27 mins) and The Human (2020, 4...
Fear of the Dark
Peter Tammer’s Fear of the Dark (1985) is partly a fictional exploration and re-enactment of the process of murder and violent intent. It is also part Cinéma vérité documentary of actor Robert Ratti’s daily lif...
Mobilities Between Place, Sound and Image: An Interview with Ana Vaz
I spoke with Ana Vaz at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in 2020. I had not seen Ana since watching her first film Sacris Pulso in Australia (2007), which re-configures the film Brasiliários (19...
Capitalism and its Discontents: an Interview with Mike Hoolboom
Dirk de Bruyn has been practicing, writing and curating in the area of experimental film and animation for over 35 years. He is currently teaching Animation and Digital Culture at Deakin University in Melbourne...
SXSW Lite: Mutating Social Hustle Into Couch Potato Charm
Five days before I got on a plane to SXSW, the world turned. All international travel was cancelled by my institution. A hammer blow. It took time to emotionally process this lost opportunity. There was no Covi...
A Resilient Ann Arbor Digs Deep
Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest running avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America. 1963 was its foundation year. This year would bring 40 programs, and 180 films selected from 3,500 sub...
The Rhizomatic Underground of Contemporary Animation Curatorship: The 9th Under the Radar Festival
The 9th Under the Radar animation film festival took place in the MuseumsQuartier, the Blickle Kino and the Filmhaus Kino in Vienna from 1-5 July. The event has a conference component which enables an in-depth ...
Laying Bare the Anzac Legend: Interview with Köken Ergun
I am talking with Turkish filmmaker and video artist Köken Ergun at the International Film Festival Rotterdam about a documentary that all Australian and New Zealand audiences should see. Şehitler (Heroes), com...
The Unspeakable finds Voice: The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam
The 48th edition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam was IFFR director Bero Beyer’s fourth iteration. The four program groupings that he instigated in his inaugural year remain in place with special...
Chasing Rabbits out of the Hat and into the SHEDding of Childhood: Alice
This is an abridged version of a longer article.
Alice (1987 Switzerland/Czechoslovakia 86 mins)
Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Condor Features/Film Four International/Hessischer Rundfunk Prod: Peter-Christian F...
Neil Taylor’s Experimental Animation: The Technical Habitus As Aesthetic Trace
This essay examines Neil Taylor's animations, situated between the moving image, performance and sculpture and in the shadows of his recognised wire-based sculptural practice. Taylor's animations automatically ...
Marking Time, Duration as Subject: Tony Woods: Archive by Andrew Gaynor (ed.)
I like boring things. When you sit and look out of a window, that’s enjoyable. It takes up time. Yeah. Really, you see people looking out of their window all the time. I do. If you’re not looking out of a windo...